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Originally Posted by kerry
Can you provide us with reasons why someone should think that there are malevolent invisible people that can enter into human minds and take them over?
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Nope. Not one bit. It is either believed arationally or one has experienced it.
The typical mechanism is not quite as you describe it, close though.
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Originally Posted by kerry
If we can't know of the existence of demons empirically, how did their existence ever become known?
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If I was 'in your shoes' I would feel EXACTLY the same.
I completely understand.
If one truly accepts and believes Christianity (and probably any other of the major faiths) then they, at core levels perceive and experience the world differently than those around them.
An empiricist may well chose to call them mentally unstable. As such I understand why non-believers would call us irrational.
It's easy for me to demonstrate that non-believers have comparable arationalities, not the same, but every bit as essential to their identity. If denied I would say they were being irrational. If acknowledged I would say they have have arationalities.
I've tried to discuss this haven't been able to get the conversation started.